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Bakto's Terrifying Cuisine: An Update and Miscellany

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It's been a little while since Bakto's went up for preorder. Sales have honestly been a bit slower coming than I expected, but that's fine. We're close enough to the goal that I decided earlier this year to go ahead and move to print. I'm in talks with the printer (a new company who I'm very excited to work with), and I can assure you that this book is going to be a significantly higher quality production than The Isle was. Of course, we have prioritized industry-leading writing, graphic design, and templating from the very beginning—so I'm pleased as punch...

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The Isle: A Pre-Postmortem

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The Isle: A Pre-Postmortem
At the risk of putting the book in the ground and covering it over, I wanted to talk a bit about The Isle, how it came to be, and why we made the decisions we made in putting it together. Normally I'm not much for this kind of thing, but a lot of what we did with this book runs counter to common wisdom and common sense in RPG publishing, in some obvious and some more subtle ways. 

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